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Commerce Act 1986

Regulated goods or services - Information disclosure regulation

53E: Charge for providing copies to public

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"Paying for copies of information you ask for"

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If you need copies of statements and information, you can ask for them. The person who has to give you these copies can charge you for them, but only if they have to do so because of a section 52P determination. They can only charge you what it costs them to make the copies, and no more than that.

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Part 4Regulated goods or services
Information disclosure regulation

53ECharge for providing copies to public

  1. A person who is required, by a section 52P determination, to provide copies of statements and information to the public on request may charge for providing those copies.

  2. The charge must be no more than is reasonably required to recover the costs of providing those copies.

Notes
  • Section 53E: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Commerce Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 70).